Consolation, February 5, 1941
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Contents
Testimony Against Them (Part 3) 3
Fifth Column 3
All Is Well (?) 7
Chiniquy's Record of What Lincoln Said 8
Death and Destruction 9
Unprecedented Storms Mark 1940 10
Preliminary to Armageddon 10
Boston's Blood at Boiling Point 11
New York State Goes Religious 12
Frank Hague 13
Laughing at Bricker 14
The Grammostola Spider 15
Counsel by J. F. Rutherford
Martyrs for Theocracy 16
Said the Wise Old Editor 18
Boulder Dam and Grand Coulee Dam 19
The New Government
From Magallanes, Farthest South 20
Proclamation in Sumatra 20
Blessings in Hawaii 21
God and the Gestapo 24
British Comment
The Clergy and the War 25
"Ye Are My Witnesses" 26
Weighty Problems -- Baffling 27
Protestantism 28
Fascism Coming to America 29
Wanted—a Lunacy Commission 30
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J W Banned in Australia
◆ In its issue of January 17 the New York Times carried the following significant item tucked away in an obscure corner:
SYDNEY, Australia, Jan. 16—The Cabinet has decided to declare Jehovah's witnesses an unlawful organization. When prosecuted in court the members of the sect declined to acknowledge allegiance to any earthly government, declared God their only king and themselves neutrals in the war. If Australia were invaded, they said, they would fight only to defend their own kin. New Zealand banned the sect last November.
The dispatch fails to reveal that it is the Roman Catholic Hierarchy that accomplished the banning of Jehovah's witnesses, using the war as an excuse.
Dever Had Lots of Religion
◆ George M. Dever, former branch manager of the Underwriters Trust Company, had a $17,000 home at Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., and a $40,000 summer home in East Moriches, on Long Island, with cars at both places, and lots of religion. When he was arrested for stealing $200,000 the clergymen who testified to his religious life could hardly conceal their surprise when he pleaded guilty and took a three-year ride up the river. It is very difficult to have religion and honesty. The two are opposites and Dever could not harmonize them; so he got caught.
Brokers Find Hard Going
◆ In some respects the American public is learning, just a little. An encouraging gleam of light comes from the fact that Wall Street brokerage houses are finding it real work now to get customers. It was great fun, a decade ago, not only to shear the sheep, but to remove their hide, horns, tails, feet and ears. Now the brokers seem to feel they may have overdone it and are wondering why the sheep don't come back as of yore. But the war boom renews their hopes.
CONSOLATION
"And in His name shall the nations hope."—Matthew 12:21, A. R. V.
Volume XXII Brooklyn, N. Y., Wednesday, February 5, 1941 Number 558
Testimony Against Them (In Three Parts—Part 3)
Who were wise in the days of Noah, those who hearkened to God and entered the ark promptly when they were called or those who postponed their decisions?
IN THE year 1926 Jehovah disclosed the fact that Satan's organization consists of three visible elements, namely, commerce, politics and religion, under the invisible direction of the Devil and a host of wicked spirit creatures. (See Deliverance, Chapter XII, "The Final Battle.") In 1929 the book Prophecy was published, which identified these three elements as symbolized by Egypt (militaristic commerce), Assyria (politics), and Babylon (religion). The three volumes of Vindication further explained and expounded in greater detail this triumvirate that does the bidding of their father, the Devil. Jehovah thus increased the light upon His Word for the benefit of the righteous. "Light is sown for the righteous."—Psalm 97:11.
In the Ezekiel picture of the unholy alliance, "Christendom" is represented as a harlot who has illicit relations with Egypt and Assyria, the commercial and political elements. (Vindication, Book One, pages 187 on) This prophecy further discloses that these two elements "shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire."—Revelation 17:16.
Corroboration of the rift which shall turn commerce and politics against religion, whose strongest element is the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, is the ambush set against Mount Seir by her erstwhile allies, Moab and Ammon. (2 Chronicles 20: 22, 23) The certainty that this foretells a fight between the world's foremost religionists and her former "lovers", the commercial and political powers, is made clear in The Watchtower of July 1, 1938, for several issues forward.
But the rift is yet ahead. It will not come until after the sign, that is, until after the three conspirators have the world to themselves and the religious bunch cries, "Peace and safety," or, according to another translation, "All is well, and all is safe." (Moffatt) That will constitute "the sign" (1 Thessalonians 5th chapter); thereafter quickly comes the end of the Hierarchy. (See Conspiracy Against Democracy.) Note that until the final parting of the ways between the Hierarchy and her paramours, there exists (and still exists right now) the closest co-operation between the three elements. If that is true, which constitutes the Fifth Column?
Fifth Column
It is certain from the Scriptures and from the facts that not one of these elements is traitor to the others, but all work in the closest co-operation. This will continue until the Lord puts it into the hearts of the radical elements to tear up the religionists. (Revelation 17:17; 2 Chronicles 20:22; 1 Thessalonians 5:3; Ezekiel 16:37-42; "Times and Seasons," in the Watchtower magazine, August 1, 15, September 1, 1940) It is therefore evident that at this day the three ruling elements are politics, religion, and commerce. These are combined against Jehovah's THEOCRACY and are bent on making the people serfs and slaves. The Fifth Column is merely an instrument to keep the people befuddled and vainly searching for an imaginary enemy while the international gangsters continue to gut the earth. It is used as a smoke-screen to keep the people running about in hysterical circles, while the gang complete the destruction of all freedom under cover of the general furor. In the melee one organization can take a crack at almost any group that has been previously marked for a sock and give as the excuse, "They are Fifth Columnists!"
The scheme is similar to the old army game of sticking an invitation "Please kick me" on the back of a rookie; and then the old-timers accommodate, with fun to all except the rookie. The difference is that the hue and cry after Fifth Columnists is done by a band of serious criminals who expect to "get" a good many enemies of themselves, and at once divert suspicion upon some innocent group. A phony uniform of patriotism seems to convince the average man that the hunt is genuine. In the end so many charges and counter charges are made that the villains are lost in a sea of suspects.
In this present state of confusion it is necessary to bear in mind that the Scriptures foretell three ruling elements that are not displaced until they throw subterfuge to the winds and really go after each other. It is important to remember this in noting that the commercial element is hand in glove with the Fascist religionists.
It is easy to see that all such governing groups will profit by the destruction of the democracies. Control of the people is virtually simple under the autocracies or the totalitarian systems. The political part is then no longer worried by a parliamentary body elected by free voters; the religious element no longer must be "shocked" by the exposure of their racket; while the munition makers and other manufacturing and business houses need not make concessions to trade unions nor have their profits clipped by the necessity to pay adequate wages. All is clear sailing, while the people are the galley slaves, the serfs, the chattel. It was foretold that modern Tyre or commerce would keep step with the partners, and the proof is abundant that big business has done that very thing.
Moab
Some months ago it was pointed out by The Nation that Hitler's air fleet was built up by such great airplane manufacturers in this country as Douglas and Pratt & Whitney. There was more than a hint in the article that American naval secrets were utilized in the design of the deadly German dive bomber. Newspapers have intimated a definite leaning to Fascism among Wall Street financiers. An official in the Texas Oil Company was so outspoken in his friendship for Hitler that his resignation was demanded. The Friday magazine charges, with much documentary evidence to support, that a large group of well-known corporations have contributed to Fascist anti-Semitic promoters in this country. The reason for such donations is given as: "Union busting and anti-Semitism go hand in hand. Anti-Semitism—the stirring up of hatred against the Jewish people—is the advance guard of Fascism. The Fascist agents try to split the ranks of the unions, to pit one group of workingmen against another, to deflect labor's struggle away from real problems and foes against imaginary 'Jewish plots'." (October 11, 1940, issue)
The open scandal of such methods employed by the Ford Motor Company is further revealed in a special issue of the Protestant Digest under the title "Model T "Anti-Semitism". According to this article Ford authorized the use of the forged Protocols of Zion by his paper, the Dearborn Independent. According to other sources W. J. Cameron, heard on the Ford Music Hour, still conducts an anti-Semitic sheet and had on the company pay roll the infamous Fritz Kuhn, Bund Fuehrer, who is now at Sing Sing.
Another employer of such criminals is the United States of America. Among the reasons for the misfiring of the Dies Committee investigations of anti-Americanism was Chief Investigator, Edward F. Sullivan. Friday magazine furnishes documentary evidence that Sullivan served a sentence for larceny in Massachusetts and was charged with a more heinous crime in New York, all prior to his appointment by the government. He was and still is a Fascist, who (in 1934) addressed a group of 2,500 Bundists and shouted: "Throw the lousy Jews into the Atlantic ocean. Heil Hitler!" (Friday magazine, October 11, 1940) A review of the activities of the agents of Catholic-Nazism is a parade of the lowest scum of humanity, criminals whose vice is unspeakable, and whose paths lead through the slimy dives of the underworld. Coughlin used gangsters of this type to try to break up a lawful assembly of Christians at Madison Square Garden in June, 1939. Seventeen of the members of his "Christian Front" were later arrested for possession of dynamite and arms. Catholic pressure squelched the case, but it was brought out that the gang included a man charged with rape and two with robbery. However, all were freed and Coughlin was not even questioned.
The three allies are not at all hampered by national boundaries. Their unity bridges across continents and oceans. While Britain fights a life-and-death struggle with her back to the wall, "British Big Business Has Sabotaged Nation's Defense," to quote the September 6 issue of Friday. Again documentary proof is adduced showing how the financiers held defense-weapon production low and profits high and revealed the scandalous connections between British and German munition manufacturers.
Also the "Men of Munich" were exposed in a publication "Guilty Men", which was banned by large distributors, but 50,000 copies were sold. The people, represented in the House of Commons, have demanded and obtained removal of some of Chamberlain's partners in the appeasement betrayal. Two notoriously pro-Nazi peers recently got a setback when they rose to attack Communism (the Catholic bogeyman) from Lord Strabolgi:
"The surrender of France," said Lord Strabolgi, "was not made by the Communists. It was made by Marshal Petain, who is a Catholic Royalist; General Weygand, who is a Catholic Royalist; M. Laval, who is certainly not a Communist. There was M. Marquet, mayor of Bordeaux, a renegade Socialist but not a Communist; and M. Baudouin, an international financier, a great friend of the Italian bankers, with banking and financial interests in the Italian colonies." Strabolgi is leader of a group who seek to "sack the Old Gang" and all who "would destroy democracy to protect dividends". These quotations are taken from Friday magazine, September 6, 1940. To those who desire to acquaint themselves with England's problems in her fight for life, this article, "Has Britain Been Betrayed?" is highly recommended.
It is clearly seen that there is no mysterious Fifth Column, no new menace that has never existed before. It is but an expression and a subtle instrument of the same old gang. The three parts of Satan's organization constantly operate at the expense of and to the destruction of the people. As religion is the chief means used to deceive, it is the element that would most nearly fit the modern meaning of the word, that is, a treacherous enemy who betrays from within. Different uniforms are worn, sometimes the priest's garb, at other times the minuteman regalia, but the operators re main unchanged. At Vatican City, the Hierarchy's chief representative directs the forward move of Nazi-Catholic Action to the end that all may presently bow to the Papacy while groveling under a Nazi yoke.
Long ago the Scriptures foretold that these conditions would exist at the end of the world, that is, just prior to the time when Satan's empire would be cut off in destruction. "Christendom," whose leader is the Roman Catholic Hierarchy, was depicted as a harlot. She is described as building her houses [churches] 'in the head of every way, and making her high place in every street', and committing fornication with her lovers, Egypt and Assyria, the commercial and political elements. How typical of the pope and his prelates are the words that she shed the "blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them"! How the pope has turned over his Catholic 'children', for whom he pretends to grieve, to his allies for gun fodder! The picture discloses that the Hierarchy goes out of her way to seek relation with the worldly powers and pays them for such relationship. Today the Vatican is undoubtedly assisting in the finance of Hitler's campaign. "And the contrary is in thee from other women in thy whoredoms, whereas none followeth thee to commit whoredoms: and in that thou givest a reward, and no reward is given unto thee; therefore thou art contrary." (Ezekiel 16: 34) "They give gifts to all whores; but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and hirest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredom."—Ezekiel 16: 33.
Witness
◆ This is indeed a terrible picture. Many other scriptures disclose that the "Harlot" is to be cut off in the height of her power. She is stripped, exposed, and torn to pieces by the very group with whom she has been so intimate, the political and commercial elements. This is accomplished by the power of the Lord, for He has so purposed it. (Isaiah 46: 11; Revelation 17: 17) Will the exposure work of Jehovah's witnesses bring about the downfall of the Hierarchy? Certainly not. Mere words would never seriously hinder that bloody monster. The Lord will do the work of execution through His King, Christ Jesus. "Thine hand shall find out all thine enemies: thy right hand [Christ Jesus] shall find out those that hate thee. Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger; the Lord shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour them." (Psalms 21: 8, 9; 145: 20) All who would escape this wrath must of necessity terminate all relationship with any part of Satan's organization.—Zephaniah 2: 1-3.
Meanwhile the Hierarchy and her allies go merrily on making the earth a miserable place for decent people to abide in. The great press systems are whooping up her praises. Her black-frocked agents incite mobs on the law-abiding; school children are viciously persecuted under the false banner of patriotism; the earth is drenched in blood at her instance: but these triumphs mark the approach of her doom. The righteous are not afraid, for the Lord says to them: "I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man which shall be made as grass."—Isaiah 51: 12; Psalm 145: 20.
What, then, is the purpose of uncovering the dirt of the Hierarchy and her filthy paramours? The answer is: "For a testimony against them." (Mark 13: 9) Why dig into the muck of her crimes to bring to light the most unspeakable record of all times? "For a testimony against them!" Why disclose her murderous complicity with international financiers and dictators? Why expose her willingness to have all or any as bedmates to push forward to world control? Her judgment is not of men. She stands condemned before the Royal Court of Heaven and the sentence is DEATH. The Lord exposes her as a testimony against her and for the benefit of those who would escape the DOOM OF RELIGION! "For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested." (Mark 4: 22) "And the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it."—Isaiah 28: 17, 18.
How could there be any room on a righteous earth for a blood-thirsty monster whose agents have castrated, tortured and killed the Lord’s servants, and who has made Europe a slaughterhouse for those she claims are her children? "Even in thy skirts is there found the blood of the lives of the helpless innocents . . . Behold me! entering into judgment with thee." (Jeremiah 2: 34, 35, Rotherham) The Lord for ever hates "a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood". (Proverbs 6: 17) In the day not far distant when God’s righteous Ruler, Christ Jesus, has executed the wicked there will be no more "prayers for peace" nor highly advertised crocodile tears shed in "grief" over a war that was incited by the "weeper at Rome". When the government is established "with judgment and with justice, from henceforth even for ever," the earth will be relieved of the presence of the Hierarchy. (Isaiah 9: 7) THE THEOCRACY, in which there will be nothing to "hurt nor destroy", shall put an end to all wickedness.—Isaiah 11: 9; Psalm 9: 12, 17.
This, then, is the purpose of everything Jehovah’s witnesses do: To testify to the name of the Most High, against the wicked and for the benefit of the righteous of every "race, kindred and tongue". If some find this a message of hate, then it is not the fault of the messenger. Their complaint is against Jehovah and they shall not be spared by the Lord’s Avenger. "And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them? I tell you that he will avenge them speedily."—Luke 18: 7, 8.
Take heed, then, righteous people of earth! Do not give ear to man’s message, but to the LORD’S message of warning. The peal of doom has been sounded for all His enemies. They are marching to certain death! They have killed His sheep and blasphemed His name! They are tramping through blood to further blitzkriegs! Crime and evil are hailed as virtues. Furiously they ride to meet the Invincible Field Marshal! They shall not ride back.
"Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired [by the Hierarchy]; before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the Lord come upon you, before the day of the Lord’s anger come upon you. Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness; it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD’S anger." (Zephaniah 2: 1-3) Here is the Lord’s direction. It is an invitation to life. To seek the Lord one must learn of His provision for life through Christ Jesus. Then follow the prescribed course, bearing in mind that the testimony against the Hierarchy is final and her ways are the ways of death. This do, and may God keep you aright.—Elton Groves.
All Is Well (?)
◆ All is well with the beloved land. A survey just completed by a government agency brings forth the radiant fact that three American families have fortunes that total eleven billion dollars, and, being in control of some of the most important productive enterprises in the country, are steadily and thriftily augmenting that tidy sum. One of these corporations, owned by the Du Ponts, did in the World War a neat little business of $1,245,000,000 in war material and paid dividends totaling 458 percent.—Charles Edward Russell, in The New Leader.
Chiniquy's Record of What Lincoln Said
AT THIS time of great to-do about Lincoln's birthday, take just a moment to consider the following passage from Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, and take special note of what Lincoln ◆ said about Professor S. F. B. Morse, inventor of telegraphy. The proof of what Professor Morse said to Lincoln, and what Lincoln reiterated to Mr. Chiniquy (fifty years a Catholic priest), will appear as the leading article in Consolation No. 561, issue of March 19, under the title "Confessions of a French Catholic Priest". The Jesuits have not yet destroyed all the records of the sayings and doings of Lincoln, Morse, Chiniquy and other American patriots who saw coming what is now self-evident to the eye of all intelligent persons,—the complete domination of American political, educational, journalistic and theatrical life, including American thinking, by the worst gang of racketeers that ever infested the planet. The Roman Catholic Hierarchy would like mighty well to question the truthfulness of these burning words, but Chiniquy's honesty is substantiated by Prof. Morse's honesty, too. The statement:
There is a fact which is too much ignored by the American people, and with which I am acquainted only since I became president; it is that the best, the leading families of the South, have received their education in great part, if not in whole, from the Jesuits and the nuns. Hence those degrading principles of slavery, pride, cruelty, which are as a second nature among so many of those people. Hence that strange want of fair play, humanity; that implacable hatred against the ideas of equality and liberty, as we find them in the Gospel of Christ. You do not ignore that the first settlers of Louisiana, Florida, New Mexico, Texas, South California and Missouri were Roman Catholics, and that their first teachers were Jesuits. It is true that those states have been conquered or bought by us since. But Rome had put the deadly virus of her anti-social and anti-Christian maxims into the veins of the people before they became American citizens. Unfortunately the Jesuits and the nuns have in great part remained the teachers of those people since. They have continued, in a silent, but most efficacious way, to spread their hatred against our institutions, our laws, our schools, our rights and our liberties, in such a way that this terrible conflict became unavoidable, between the North and the South. As I told you before, it is to Popery that we owe this terrible civil war.
I would have laughed at the man who would have told me that before I became president. But Professor Morse has opened my eyes on that subject. And, now, I see that mystery; I understand that engineering of hell which, though not seen, nor even suspected by the country, is putting in motion the large, heavy and noisy wheels of the state cars of the Southern Confederacy.
Our people is not yet ready to learn and believe those things, and perhaps it is not the proper time to initiate them to those dark mysteries of hell; it would throw oil on a fire which is already sufficiently destructive. . . .
But sooner or later, the nation will know the real origin of those rivers of blood and tears, which are spreading desolation and death everywhere. And, then, those who have caused those desolations and disasters will be called to give an account of them.
I do not pretend to be a prophet. But though not a prophet, I see a very dark cloud on our horizon. And that dark cloud is coming from Rome. It is filled with tears of blood. It will rise and increase, till its flanks will be torn by a flash of lightning, followed by a fearful peal of thunder. Then a cyclone such as the world has never seen will pass over this country, spreading ruin and desolation from north to south. After it is over, there will be long days of peace and prosperity: for Popery, with its Jesuits and merciless Inquisition, will have been for ever swept away from our country. — Pages 714, 715, Fifty Years in the Church of Rome, by C. Chiniquy.
Motoring
Death and Destruction
◆ Originally the war of the nations, sudden as a bursting bomb, opened its bloodshed account in Servia, now Yugoslavia. Historically, the story has been told in fact and fiction a hundred times. Invisibly, the demons were there; nor have they, it appears, ever left their active and malign association with things and persons connected in various degrees with the primary cause of this age conflagration. Be that as it may, the following curious chain of circumstances cannot but give rise to somber thought on the hideous power controlling the peoples of earth. Today an abandoned motor-car lies in the knacker’s yard of a deceased Belgrade dealer in secondhand parts. It is the car in which the archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir-apparent to the Austrian throne, and his wife were shot dead by the assassin Princep as they drove through the streets of Sarajevo. Ever since then this car—made, strangely enough, in Germany—has brought nothing but death and disaster to its owners. For several months after the assassination it lay in a garage. Then the governor of Sarajevo, General Potiorek, who was riding in the car when the archduke and his wife were killed, and who narrowly escaped death then, had it repaired for his own use. Its cushions were re-covered, and the holes where the pistol shots had pierced the coachwork were sealed. A few days later the governor went into battle for his country, and was defeated. The shame drove him mad, and he died penniless in a lunatic asylum.
The car passed into the hands of an Austrian officer. On two successive days it killed people on the roads, and soon afterwards its owner was killed when the car struck a pylon. Two more owners were killed while driving the car. After that it was laid up again.
After the armistice, when Bosnia became Yugoslav territory, the new governor of Sarajevo acquired the car, which had been given a new coat of paint. After being involved in four accidents, in one of which he lost an arm, he sold it to a doctor.
Six months later the doctor was called to an urgent case in the country. He never got there. The car was found overturned with the doctor’s body lying about fifty feet away. The doctor’s patient died.
The car was towed to a garage, and sold to a wealthy landowner, after being repaired. Within six months he became bankrupt and committed suicide. His executors sold the car to a businessman. A week later, in a collision, he killed two people and injured four passengers he was carrying.
Again the car passed into the hands of a doctor. When he was warned, he sold it to a Swiss racing motorist, Bluntli. One day Bluntli, with his family, left in the car for a holiday in the Dolomites. The car struck another as it was mounting a precipitous mountain road, and hurled it into a ravine hundreds of feet below. Bluntli was killed.
Five more times it changed hands, and each of its new owners or their friends, after riding in the car, met sudden death.
The heirs of the latest owner would have nothing to do with it, except to ask a secondhand car dealer to come and drive it away. They would take no money for it. The car was driven by the dealer himself to his yard. He died suddenly the same night. The death of Jehovah God’s creatures is the sole, malevolent purpose of the demons controlled by the Devil. —Australian Consolation.
Henry’s 28,000,000th
◆ Henry says that when he started to make Fords he had $28,000 capital. In 1940 his concern made the 28,000,000th car. The first car was marketed June 16, 1903.
Natural Phenomena
Unprecedented Storms Mark 1940
◆ Unprecedented storms marked the beginning of 1940. A great ice storm, technically known as a glaze, covered the eastern states. Millions of trees were damaged by the great loads of ice, sometimes two inches thick, carried on every bough. Electric lines suffered then, but much more two weeks later when a great tornado in the sun caused a magnetic storm that practically destroyed wire and wireless communication for five hours. Fortunately this storm came in the middle of the daytime on a Sunday. If it had occurred when the newspaper offices are busiest the papers the next morning would have been a strange sight, for the teletype systems upon which they depend went haywire and the dispatches that came through were unintelligible and undecipherable. 1940 was also ushered in by an epidemic of severe earthquake shocks, many of them beneath the ocean in various parts of the world, but culminating in great disasters in Turkey and elsewhere. The excessively cold weather, long continued, which ushered in 1940 is charged to an unusual quantity of volcanic dust many miles above the earth that reduced the number of the sun's rays reaching the planet.
Explosion of a Sun
◆ It is conjectured that the terrific cold wave which swept the northern hemisphere in the winter of 1939-1940 may have been caused in some unexplained manner by the explosion of a huge sun in the milky way, recently observed by several astronomers.
Coldest and Hottest
◆ The coldest weather recorded by man was 94.4 degrees below zero, in Siberia, in 1892, and the hottest was 136.4 degrees, in Tripolitania, Libya, North Africa, in September, 1922. That is a difference of 230.8 degrees and it speaks volumes for the way man is put together that he can stand such extremes. The temperature of the world has been gradually rising during the past forty years, owing to the melting of the polar icecaps. In the East the winter of 1940-1941 is much milder than that of 1939-1940.
Preliminary to Armageddon
◆ Preliminary to Armageddon, and as one of the features of the "evil day" which precedes it, the earth is due to crack along the lines of the great earthquake fissure that runs around the globe. In 1935 it was in Quetta, India; in December, 1939, it was farther west. Turkey had a horrible experience. In places the mountains were torn with fissures several yards wide, from which smoke and sulphur poured. Other fissures shot out high jets of boiling water. Rivers were swollen by great rains. Dams gave way. Bridges disappeared. The frightened inhabitants of large areas left their homes and encamped in the snow in bitter winter weather. There were 45,000 killed and 100,000 injured, and 500,000 made homeless. All this was at the time Finland was putting up its plucky fight for existence against the Russian Bear. Hence it received not much public notice. But the Turkish earthquake was a great disaster.
The Meteors About Saturn
◆ The rings about Saturn, three in number, are thin and flat, lying one within another in the plane of the planet's equator; hence they can sometimes be seen and sometimes not. Galileo, who first saw them, subsequently could not see them, because he looked at them edgewise. The outer ring is 171,000 miles in diameter. The rings are similar to those that once enveloped the earth, and which, falling at various times, left behind them the coal, iron, gold, fire clay and other mineral riches with which the earth's crust abounds.
New England
Boston's Blood at Boiling Point
◆ New England is famous in history, not for being conservative, but for being the other way. The Revolution started there, and isn't over yet. A throng of 20,000 gathered on the famous Boston Common and cheered Colonel Henry Breckenridge, of New York, and Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell, president emeritus of Harvard University, as they demanded that America give all possible aid to the Allies, give it immediately and arm to the teeth, because "the blood-drenched Hitler is at our gates." "If France and England go down, we shall face alone the dictators. It is inconceivable that America can exist as the only free nation in a world of conquering tyrants." "Where the money is the hand will fight."
A "Chromium-plated" Watch
◆ Two years ago I bought an aluminum-plated watch, sold as chromium-plated. In a few days my wrist began to itch, became inflamed, became sore, and the sores began to break and run. Now, in order to wear my watch, I cover the back of it with white adhesive tape, and this device of keeping the deadly poison away from my wrist works to perfection.—Gordon J. Boosha, Vermont.
Their Hitler Salute Worries Them
◆ Word comes from Boston that schoolmen there are worried now because the form of flag salute pushed over on the public schools (by those that run the parochials) is the Hitler form. Never mind! That is what both Pacelli and Hitler desire, and their agents in Boston have done as they were expected to do. Why change it?
Physicians Kill a Girl in Worcester
◆ As a part of the unscriptural and unreasonable serum craze, physicians in a state hospital at Worcester, Massachusetts, killed a beautiful 21-year-old girl that they had talked into submitting to one of their experiments. She died within ten minutes after receiving an injection of the stuff they had fixed up for insertion into her blood stream; and you can bet your last dollar that not one of them will suffer any punishment or receive any rebuke whatever for this crime.
The Santa Claus Swindle
◆ Persons who lie to little children about Santa Claus should be interested in the fact that in Boston a department store employee stepped on the right foot of an eight-year-old boy and broke his instep. The employee was dressed as Santa Claus and is being sued for $20,000 for making a child a cripple for life. Not a Christmas season passes that does not take its toll of precious lives due to fires caused by the trees and other decorations. And what about the homes that are burned to the ground and the suffering thus caused to children and parents?
Zakos May Learn Something
◆ In Greenwich, Connecticut, when Stephen Zakos, a white chef, refused to serve him and three companions, W. Avery Wood, a Negro attorney of Stamford, had him arrested on the grounds that he violated the State law which, under the penalty of a fine of $1,000 or imprisonment for one year, prohibits "the deprivation of an individual's immunities on account of alienage, color, or race."—Equality.
Fascist-Nazi Ideals
◆ "The French and British are fighting against an enemy which openly boasts that personal liberty and international good faith, ideals to which our nation is dedicated, shall be destroyed by the brute force that knows no law."—President Charles Seymour of Yale University, in an address in New Haven. (New York Times) New York
New York State Goes Religious
◆ Despite the certain knowledge that it is the first step in union of church and state, both the senate and assembly of New York State passed, with but one dissenting vote, approval of a bill to excuse the little folks from school during the precious hours devoted to instruction, so that they might go to some "church" or elsewhere to receive "religious training", i.e., knowledge that will be but a snare to them and lead them farther from truth and righteousness than any other course they could take.
Biggest Flower Blooms
◆ Bronx Park, New York city, was favored a while back with the blooming of the Giant Krubi, of Sumatra, the largest flower in the world. Within two hours from the time the flower started to unfold its blossom the latter became a full bloom four feet in diameter and five feet high. It is described as like a gigantic morning-glory, with fluted sides and ruffled edges, the interior a rich maroon and the exterior a light green. No Giant Krubi has ever bloomed a second time in captivity.
Teepell Envied the Animals
◆ At Buffalo, New York, Walter E. Teepell wrote a little note and put it in his pocket, saying, "I cannot go on; even the animals are better off; they get their meals regularly," and then shot and killed himself on the steps of a church. The name of the church was the First United Presbyterian church. Not sure if that will increase attendance any.
Her Hunk of Glass
◆ A poor woman walking through Union Square, New York city, saw an attractive-looking hunk of glass, picked it up, and next day showed it to a jeweler. He advised her to show it to the police, which she did. The stone was then advertised, but nobody claimed it, and now the poor woman has a ten-carat diamond, worth from $5,000 to $10,000, and as her family has it hard to get along, she is real glad that she stooped to pick up the "piece of glass".
Humidity and the Death Rate
◆ A very astonishing deduction made by the night meteorologist of the New York Weather Bureau is that a low death rate is associated with high humidity and a high death rate with low humidity. In other words, New Yorkers are more healthy when humidity is high. Perhaps the explanation is, not that they are in better health when they are uncomfortable, but that they are in better health when they perspire and the poisons are getting out of their systems.
Queensborough Houses
◆ Queensborough Houses occupies 47 acres in what was once a slum area and, when completed, will furnish excellent homes for 11,400 persons. The average rent is but $5.41 per room per month, and no family may live at Queensborough at all if its total income exceeds $1,196. A new park of 15 acres adjoins. Ultimately a total of $13,500,000 will be expended on this development, which, thus far, is the largest housing development in America.
Plans to Move 2,000,000 Troops
◆ The railroads of the United States and the United States Army, working together, have formulated plans for moving 2,000,000 troops through the port of New York. This fact came to light by a chance remark of the manager of port traffic in an interstate commerce commission hearing. Wonder if you are one of the 2,000,000 men and where you have in mind to go. Of course, you know that promises, like platforms, are to get in on, and not to ride on. Europe, next stop.
New Jersey
Frank Hague
◆ Many brief biographies of Frank Hague have appeared in this magazine in recent years. Here is another, collected from various sources. Hitler's technique is the crudest of the crude compared with Hague's methods of controlling both parties in New Jersey. All that is necessary is that politicians do as they are told and pay a percentage of their salaries into the "kitty". Hague takes himself seriously. He was expelled from school at the age of 13 as incorrigible, and is still that. He bans carnivals, burlesque, night clubs, taxi dance-halls, brothels and women drinking at bars, never drinks, not even tea or coffee, talks profanely and scathingly. He is on record as saying: "As long as I am mayor of this city the great industries of the city are secure. We hear about constitutional rights, free speech and free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a red; that man is a Communist.' You never hear a real American talk in that manner."
Hague lives like a multimillionaire and on a salary of $6,000 a year is able to bestow $75,000 gifts on Roman Catholic institutions which meet his approval. When tickets in which he is interested are up it is not uncommon for dead men to vote in favor of them and live men vote so many times they get dizzy trying to keep a record of it. New Jersey is the jumping-off place of American civilization.
America's Biggest Cities
◆ New York has 7,380,259; Chicago, 3,384,556; Philadelphia, 1,935,086; Detroit, 1,618,549; and Los Angeles, 1,496,792. Of less than 1,000,000 inhabitants and more than 500,000 are Cleveland, Baltimore, St. Louis, Boston, Pittsburgh, Washington, San Francisco, Milwaukee, and Buffalo. Of less than 500,000, but still among the nation's 25 largest cities, are New Orleans, Minneapolis, Cincinnati, Newark, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Houston, Seattle, Rochester, Louisville, and Denver. Jersey City used to be among these leaders, but Hague's policies have killed the town, and in the ten years from 1930 census to 1940 it fell from number 23 in the national list down to number 30, the biggest fall of any American city. Nobody wants to try to do business in a city run by a man with no more conscience than a man like Hague.
Addressing Frank Hague
◆ Addressing Frank Hague, the dictator's personal ambassador to New Jersey, Mr. Willkie thanked this American Hitler for letting him speak in Jersey City and said, "But I should like to point out that Americans don't need to be told to listen courteously to somebody addressing them publicly—they were all born with the right to listen. What kind of civil liberty is there if a certain big shot in some community must request the people of that community to give a hearing to somebody who wants to speak to them? How did he get that way?"
Cured Him of $2,000
◆ A woman in the city of Frank "Cardinal" Hague persuaded a tavern keeper to advance $2,000, with the understanding that it would be returned to him after a midnight ritual of "faith healing" in a local cemetery. If you see the woman, be sure to let the anxious man know, because he is still waiting for her.
House Moved Fourteen Miles
◆ A resident of Avalon, New Jersey, decided she would like to live in Cape May Court House, fourteen miles away, so she moved, and took her house with her. The house was loaded on a barge, and made the trip in safety, for $1,400. The house was a fair-sized six-room house.
Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky.
Laughing at Bricker
◆ Ohio citizens are laughing at “Reverend” Bricker now because he promised he would clean house in the state government if made governor of Ohio. The principal thing he accomplished in this direction was to boost Ohio liquor sales 47 percent. Bricker’s reason for hating Jehovah’s witnesses lies in the fact that during the first World War he gave up the study of the law and studied for the ministry. This looked like a safe bet for keeping out of danger. When the war was over he went back to the study of the law. It would be impossible for any hypocrite not to hate Jehovah’s witnesses. So, maybe Bricker did the “reasonable” thing (for him), after all, in rejecting the petition of over 2,000,000 of his fellow men that he give the witnesses a fair deal and stand by American laws and principles.
A Church Dog
◆ A subscriber writes in making inquiry about an Associated Press dispatch from Frankfort, Kentucky. A priest had claimed exemption from a license tax for his dog on the ground that the dog is the property of the church. The lady wants to know what kind of dog a church dog is. It is slightly embarrassing. But, lady, a church dog is the son of its mother, and that makes it a son of whatever kind of mother it chances to be. If this isn’t clear, the matter can be taken up with any dealer in dog collars or church goods of any kind.
Not So Important, After All
◆ The board of public health of Indianapolis issued an order that all school children must be vaccinated or remain away from classes. Six hundred of the youngsters concluded to stay away; and then the board decided vaccination is not so important, after all, and rescinded the order.
In Kosciusko County, Indiana
◆ In Kosciusko county, Indiana, the county board of education appealed to the state department of the American Legion to investigate the principles of the Methodist bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, of Boston, Massachusetts. That’s rich. Now, just to give them something to do, how would it do for the board to appeal to the Legion for the right, just for a time, to lay aside their didies and wear pants? The experiment would probably end in disaster, but they might try it, anyway. Being an American does not consist in flag-waving, and threatening, and maltreating other Americans.
In Rural Ohio
◆ In rural Ohio, in an elegant new home, surrounded by several tourist cottages, lives a gentleman who wishes not to be disturbed, and his wishes are being respected. On the gate which leads into his private park or tourist camp is emblazoned the following hearty invitation to remain outside:
“NOTIS. Tresspasers will B persecuted to the full extent of 2 mungrel dogs which never was over sochible to strangers and 1 dubble brl shotgun which aint loaded with sofa pillers. DAM if I aint gitten tired of this HELL raisin on my place. Jorge T. Glover.”
Wild Scene at Rochester, Indiana
◆ There was a wild night scene at Rochester, Indiana, when Cole Brothers circus was burned and buildings 240 feet by 320 feet burned so quickly that lions, tigers, panthers and leopards were burned to death in their cages. About 350 horses, elephants, camels and ponies stampeded into the city. Several of the elephants tried to turn back to the blazing buildings, but were prodded away by employees. One of the owners of the circus suffered a heart attack and had to be taken home.
South America
The Grammostola Spider
◆ The grammostola spider of Brazil is no ordinary spider. He has a peculiar appetite. He is fond of jararacas, that is to say, lachesi atrox. In other words, he eats snakes. When he selects a snake that he thinks he would like he shoots Mr. Snake full of venom. The snake gets cramps, like a small boy that has eaten too many green apples; then he gets lockjaw, convulsions, paralysis and loss of breath, and finally passes to his reward, which, in this case, is inside the spider. It takes several days for a grammostola to eat a jararaca, but he has a good time, or thinks he has, while he is doing it. Never start an argument with a grammostola.
Lots of Room in Brazil
◆ José Oliveira Marques, head of the land colonization department of the Agriculture Ministry of Brazil, in a statement made at Rio de Janeiro, the capital, made the following declaration: "Farmers from the United States will be thrice welcome. They will be received as friends and we will give them special treatment. Brazil knows United States farmers are specialists who are likely to introduce modern farming methods, helping improve the living standard of Brazilian farmers. They would come to Brazil freely, not because of politics".
Lost for 25 Years
◆ Peruvian aviators discovered a town of 80 white families in southeastern Peru which had been out of contact with civilization for twenty-five years. These pioneers, composed of Spanish-speaking people, welcomed the sight of newspapers and begged that the Peruvian authorities would send them schoolteachers and a radio telegraph station. Viewing the present condition of the world, it seems almost as if their request ought to be denied.
The Snow Cruiser
◆ Admiral Byrd's "Snow Cruiser" is 55 feet long, 15 feet wide, 15 feet high, and has wheels 10 feet in diameter. It has separate propulsion for each wheel, can cross a crevass 15 feet wide, and carries an airplane on its back. It provides living room for six men, with food and supplies for a year and a half. It cost $150,000. The biggest thing on wheels, it wallows badly when the snows in Antarctica are soft, not having enough power to handle itself properly. However, the idea seems practical and sensible.
"Treasures upon Earth"
◆ Perhaps never having noticed the Lord's instructions; "Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth," somebody in charge of the cathedral at Lima, Peru, laid up about $60,000,000 worth of gold plate and jewels as part of the equipment of that enterprise. Along came the pirate ship Mary Dear, made love to the $60,000,000 worth of earthly treasure, and buried it on Cocos Island. It has just been found. Who wants it? Do you? After Armageddon it will not be worth 30c.
Treasures of Antarctica
◆ The treasures of Antarctica up to date are seemingly limited to penguins, mosses, lichens, and ice two thousand feet thick. There are no insects, no four-footed beasts, no natives. Winds average fifty miles per hour the year round, and the temperatures run to eighty degrees below zero. There may be minerals. —Australian Consolation.
Refugees Returned to Devil's Island
◆ It makes an American ashamed to read that after eight brave men sailed a boat 3,500 miles to escape from the horrors of Devil's Island to the United States, they are liable to be sent back to perhaps the world's worst prison camp.
COUNSEL
by J. F. Rutherford
Martyrs for Theocracy
ONLY a few persons now on the earth appreciate the importance of the present-day events that are coming to pass, because only they have a vision of the greatest thing that has ever come or ever will come to the earth.
The Theocracy, or Kingdom of Jehovah God, with Christ Jesus as the Head and Chief thereof, is that which is of all importance and the greatest of all things that comes to earth, because it is by and through that Theocratic Government that the much-misrepresented and reproached name of Jehovah will be fully vindicated, and by and through the King Christ Jesus God will administer life everlasting to all who render themselves in full obedience to the law of the Kingdom.
All religionists, and many of those who think themselves as walking in the "narrow way to life" and who are selfish, have considered and do now regard their own individual salvation as the most important thing. Salvation of men is only of secondary importance. Therefore the Kingdom, that is, The Theocratic Government of righteousness, is of the greatest importance, and it is only those who see and appreciate this fact that now enjoy peace of mind and joy of heart.
Shortly after their expulsion from their paradise in Eden there was born to Adam and his wife their son Abel. His occupation was and is a criterion by which the faithful children of God may be identified. Abel was a shepherd boy, attending to and feeding the sheep. Those who are fed spiritual food and who in turn minister unto others are designated by the Lord under the symbol of "sheep". Throughout the sacred Scriptures the obedient ones are called "sheep". It is the sheep flock of the Lord that are taken into the Kingdom and receive the blessings thereof. Out under the stars and guarding the flocks while they rested, the mind and heart of that shepherd boy Abel was turned to the Almighty God. He had faith in God. Steadfastly resisting the assaults of the Devil, Abel remained true and faithful and worshiped the Almighty God in spirit and in truth. That shepherd boy was the first one of a small company of faithful witnesses of Jehovah, who centered their hopes in God's kingdom. Resisting the enemy and remaining true to Jehovah, those faithful men sealed their testimony with their own blood. Abel was the first martyr to the cause of righteousness. "Martyr" literally means "witness". Since the time of Abel to now every one who has faithfully obeyed Jehovah has been the object of the wicked assault by Satan the enemy.
Applying his deceptive and wicked methods in his effort to make good his challenge to Jehovah God, the Devil has turned away from God the great majority of humankind; but from Abel unto this very day there have been, and are, a small minority of human creatures that have remained true and steadfast to the Most High, having their heart set upon and their hopes centered in the kingdom of God, The Theocracy. Let The Theocratic Government now be magnified in the heart of every one who loves righteousness.
Referring again to that little company of faithful men from Abel to John the Baptist, the announcer of Jesus: God revealed to them His purpose to set up a government that would rule all the world in righteousness and minister boundless blessings to all men who put themselves under and who continue obedient to the laws of that government. By faith those men of old visualized the Kingdom, and with great yearning they desired it. Separating themselves entirely from those men who yielded to Satan's blandishments, that little company of faithful men were blind to everything save the righteous government of the Most High. Their faith and devotion to God is set before all who follow after as a true and correct example. Concerning those faithful servants of the Most High, God caused to be written in His Word the following, at Hebrews 11: 13-16: "These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For they that say such things declare plainly that they seek a country. And truly if they had been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had opportunity to have returned; but now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city."
Those faithful men left "the world", or Satan's organization, and, says the scripture, had they desired they could have returned; but their real desire was a better government, a government controlled from heaven by Christ Jesus under Jehovah God the great Theocrat, and because of their unswerving devotion to God and His kingdom Jehovah God is not ashamed to be called their God and they were Jehovah's witnesses. He has prepared a place for them in that righteous government, and by His grace they shall soon receive it and occupy that condition of blessedness on earth.
Every one of the faithful men there named in Hebrews chapter eleven, the Devil sought to destroy. Such cruel assaults, however, did not shake their faith in God or deter them from performing their duty. The cruel trials to which they were subjected, and the great persecution heaped upon them, and their faithful devotion to Jehovah under such adverse conditions, serve to comfort and encourage the witnesses of Jehovah who today are striving to maintain their integrity toward the Most High. Those faithful men of old had opportunity to accept temporary deliverance by becoming unfaithful to God, but such deliverance they refused. They chose to suffer affliction for righteousness rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. They were determined that nothing would separate them from the love of God and their hope and prospects of the glorious Theocratic Government that should some day rule the world. Therefore of them it is written (Hebrews 11: 36-40):
"And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover, of bonds and imprisonment: they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were tempted, were slain with the sword: they wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented; (of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise: God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect."
The faithful remnant of Jehovah's witnesses on earth today, because of their faithfulness in giving the testimony of Jesus Christ concerning God and His kingdom, are likewise ill-treated and abused, persecuted and imprisoned, and, while undergoing such cruelty, they rejoice to call to mind the experiences of the faithful men of old, and thus are encouraged to press on with their work, singing the praises of the Most High as they go. God has provided for such faithful "remnant" better things than will be enjoyed by Abel and his companions mentioned in the Scriptures. That "better thing" includes the great privilege of being now on the earth at the coming of Jehovah's King of The Theocracy, Christ Jesus, and of being His servants and announcing the King and His kingdom, and the prospect of being a part of the royal house in heaven, to be for ever associated there with the King. Seeing the glorious prospects set before them, the present-day witnesses of Jehovah give heed to this admonition: "Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses [from Abel to John], let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us."—Hebrews 12: 1.
Only the Theocratic Government is worth while, and only Jehovah and His King Christ Jesus will they serve.
The Press
Said the Wise Old Editor
◆ "In this office we do not commence; we begin. We do not peruse a book; we read it. We do not purchase; we buy. We have no souvenirs; we have keepsakes. A spade is called a spade. In this town we do not reside in residences; we live in homes. We do not retire; we go to bed. We do not pass away; we die. We are buried in coffins, not caskets. We have no morticians. We are not all gentlemen, but we are all men. All women are not ladies, but all women are women. All women are females, it is true, but dogs, horses and pigs can also be females. Hence, in deference to our women, do not class them as mere females. Our priests, ministers and rabbis are not divines. Our lawyers are not barristers. Our real estate dealers are not realtors. Our plumbers are not sanitary engineers. No beauticians live here. All fires, remember, are not conflagrations. All testimony is not evidence. And if any reporter writes of a body landing with a 'dull, sickening thud,' he will land on the sidewalk with a jolt, his hat and his pay envelope."—Philadelphia Inquirer.
Free Speech in Boston
◆ "This creature Hitler will never be beaten by the 'rules of civilized warfare'. Somebody has got to get right down in the gutter with him and fight the way he fights, only more cruelly. This is no time to prate about humanitarian ideals. The Allies are dealing with a wild beast. Yes, worse; dealing with a monster utterly lacking in principle. His word is no good, his methods are satanic. In the night he murdered Belgium and Holland. Hitler is merely an ex-guttersnipe, a mediocre little man with a mediocre mind, acting just as any fanatical, sub-standard person would act if given unrestricted use of modern instruments of science. We should set American science to work devising the most hellish instruments of defense the mind can conceive."—Boston Traveler editorial.
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